  | CHAPTER | | PAGE | | INTRODUCTION | vii | | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | xi | | I. | MY FIRST LESSONS AT THE COURT (AUTUMN, 1905) | 17 | | II. | ALEXIS NICOLAÏEVITCH—VISITS TO THE CRIMEA (AUTUMN, 1911, AND SPRING, 1912)—SPALA (AUTUMN, 1912) | 25 | | III. | I BEGIN MY DUTIES AS TUTOR—THE CZAREVITCH’S ILLNESS (AUTUMN, 1913) | 37 | | IV. | THE CZARINA, ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA | 47 | | V. | RASPUTIN | 59 | | VI. | ILIFE AT TSARSKOÏE-SELO—MY PUPILS (THE WINTER OF 1913-14) | 69 | | VII. | THE INFLUENCE OF RASPUTIN—MADAME WYROUBOVA—MY TUTORIAL TROUBLES (WINTER OF 1913) | 81 | | VIII. | JOURNEYS TO THE CRIMEA AND RUMANIA—PRESIDENT POINCARÉ’S VISIT—DECLARATION OF WAR BY GERMANY (APRIL-JULY, 1914) | 91 | | IX. | THE IMPERIAL FAMILY IN THE FIRST DAYS OF THE WAR—OUR JOURNEY TO MOSCOW (AUGUST, 1914) | 105 | | X. | THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE WAR | 121 | | XI. | THE RETREAT OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY—THE CZAR PLACES HIMSELF AT THE HEAD OF HIS ARMY—THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF THE CZARINA (FEBRUARY-SEPTEMBER, 1915) | 133 | | XII. | NICHOLAS II. AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF—THE ARRIVAL OF THE CZAREVITCH AT G.H.Q.—VISITS TO THE FRONT(SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER, 1915) | 147 | | XIII. | THE CZAR AT THE DUMA—THE CAMPAIGN IN GALICIA—OUR LIFE AT G.H.Q.—GROWING DISAFFECTION IN THE REAR (1916) | 161 | | XIV. | POLITICAL TENSION—THE DEATH OF RASPUTIN (DECEMBER, 1916) | 177 | | XV. | THE REVOLUTION—THE ABDICATION OF NICHOLAS II. (MARCH, 1917) | 187 | |
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